Rick Hill is the Valero Alamo Bowl’s VP of Marketing and Communications. Prior to the bowl, Rick spent 6 years working for the Spurs, one season with Missions Baseball and two fruitless months trying to sell season tickets for the S.A. Riders.

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Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow

While I fancy myself an early adopter of technology, I’m embarrassed to admit I still use a Time Text calendar to enter in my day-by-day activities. I received it as part of a time management seminar I attended in 1992. It’s been a rocky marriage given my almost illegible handwriting.

So with the start of a new college football season, it’s time for a clean break. Hopefully the internet is here to stay because I’m going to digital.

Here are this week’s appointments I typed into my Outlook calendar.

Wednesday: Talk the bowl’s legal counsel into letting employees be eligible to win the You Pick ‘Em contest we run with Kiolbassa Sausage. Correctly picking the Big 12 and Pac-12 games could win you game tickets and a VIP tailgate for 20. For the best chances to win, register here before noon on Thursday.

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Thursday: Watch the ESPN Thursday Night Game of the Week. I don’t have a dog in the hunt in the battle of the Carolinas (North Carolina at South Carolina), but I appreciate a colorful coach. Gamecocks Steve Spurrier is good with a quote and was featured on one of the best GameDay signs of all-time.

Friday: Wear my Trinity maroon for College Colors Day. I’m also going to gas up at Valero and you should too. Use the hashtag #CollegeColorsDay to let us know where you are. Our staff will be driving around before work. If we see you repping your colors at a Valero, you could receive a pair of tickets to our Rudy’s Bar-B-Q Pigskin Preview. This 800-person luncheon on September 5 is a fan favorite and includes on-field activities and great insight from our college football panel headlined by ESPN’s Brock Huard.

Friday also marks our general public onsale for the 2013 Valero Alamo Bowl via Ticketmaster and the Alamodome Box Office.

Saturday: Find a comfortable spot on my couch from 2 p.m. to midnight to watch Oklahoma State vs. Mississippi State, TCU vs. LSU and Washington vs. Boise State back-to-back-to-back. Admittedly the first Saturday of the season doesn’t always feature the most compelling match-ups. However, this slate of action featuring two recent Valero Alamo Bowl teams (OSU and UW) and one team several media outlets have pegged to play in this year’s Valero Alamo Bowl (TCU).

It may be a sad week for my Time Text, but there is no time to look back. The start of the college football season is finally here.